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Westmr</rs>
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. of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3139">Middex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="WACWIC65226_date380">Twenty seventh day of December<lb></lb>
1786</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3140">St. Clement<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3141">Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex<lb></lb>
upon an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2569-1">William Cattell</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2141">Infant</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County.</p>
<p n="2570"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2570-1">William Cattell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo3143">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ2142">Brass Founder</rs>
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on his Oath saith That<lb></lb>
on Saturday last the Twenty third<lb></lb>
Instant this Dept. was at home and<lb></lb>
is well satisfied that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2570-2">Rebecca</rs>
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<lb></lb>
& Mother to the Deced put the Deced<lb></lb>
upon a Bed in a Back Rom in Dept.<lb></lb>
House to Sleep as she used to do every<lb></lb>
day Says that Susanna Partridge<lb></lb>
Sister to Mrs. Cattell was Dressing<lb></lb>
herself in the Back Room in order<lb></lb>
to go out which she did about three<lb></lb>
o'Clock That about four o'Clock<lb></lb>
Mr. Cattell went and the Back<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and seeing the Bed Turned up she<lb></lb>
was alarmed crying what has my Sister<lb></lb>
done with the Child and not seeing it<lb></lb>
She that down the Bed and found the<lb></lb>
Deced smothered in the Bed Cloaths<lb></lb>
and Dept. saw it likewise; and an<lb></lb>
apothecary who was fetched; pronounced<lb></lb>
the Child to<obscured></obscured>
and Dept. believes<lb></lb>
that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2570-3">Susanna Partridge</rs>
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turned up<lb></lb>
the Bed not knowing that the Child<lb></lb>
was there asleep, and that the Child's<lb></lb>
Death was verily Accidental</p>
<p n="2571"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n2571-1">William<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Cattell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
her Mark</p>
<p n="2572">Sworn in his Day Year<lb></lb>
& Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
Tho. Prickard Corner}</p>
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